Let' start with any wilderness sectors and work from there. You can use any original tileset or try out my extended ones available by request.

Any named terrain tileset would be the ones to start with. Ex.: desert, tropical, coastal, lush, mountain, swamp, farm or generic. Even snow if you want to. Use whatever the most current version of the map editor is.

Send all map entries to new links posted below or I can make up a new mailbox.

Wherever you send it, write a description of your map, what sector to replace and include it as an attachment. Either .zip or .rar if you need to compress. I will make a overhead screenshot of each one and post them all on a new page in my website. Anyone can vote by using the same email above.

Modders needing mapping help can also send in requests. Whomever gets the new maps can make all maps available for download.

Let's just have some fun with this. All these new maps should be available for use in anyone's mod or replace the default maps from Arulco if playing the base game.

Hello all, I am sorry if this is kind of "off topic" but would gladly participate in the future to these contests.

Sadly enough I found the manual provided for editing maps kind of "very incomplete" and have failed to make maps that worked well. Anyway I haven't stopped trying tho..

In the past (even more offtopic) I made maps for duke nukem 3d and blood (using the build editor) and could find entire tutorials for making them. (resulting in tons of working great maps) But I seem to have trouble finding such tuts for jagged alliance. I'm sure I could create some fairly good/unique maps. If only there were some good tutorials for doing stuff with the editor...

Maybe someone could step in and help us out here? I'm sure there would be more people that would love them too.

Kaiden, could you change the topic name to something like
"1.13 Map Database Project"

Everyone else, the map editor is very easy to learn and get positive results with, compared to some other complex ones I've seen for other games. Let the creative thoughts flow. Any questions please post them here.

I am also very much interested in this, and was hoping some new people and old would take a shine to the map editor. I really want too myself soon. But I am focused on a few other projects right now. And I can only wrap my burned out pea brain around so many things at one time.

For what it is worth, I will be altering my mod to reflect the 'can and cannot' enable/disable sectors.
Once this is done, I can make this available to anyone that wants it.
Heck, it will be easy to strip maps out of it to use anyway!!

Should be done in a few days time.
Will post screenshot and link here.

Please bear in mind, that this started way back with the UB editor, changed over to the JA2Beta editor, changed to the latest editor as well as all the tileset alterations etc...

There is a short 'readme' for some explanations contained within the rar.

Worth note:
This is/was to be used with TonsOfGuns and Insane mode.
How it will work with other settings - I have no idea, but should be ok.
You may want to edit A9 for gear. This mod was designed so that you never had to use Bobby Rays or Mine income. BUT, because I have removed some quests (for use in a new idea), I have put the mines back in. All you really have is:
-Altered maps from 'God knows where'.
-Altered existing maps.
-Loads of new ones.

DISCLAIMER:
I have tested very little of the maps, so there could possibly be problems somewhere, I hope not.
From what I have played, it is an absolute pig, so best of luck with it.

Well, the mod was designed for Insane mode. That is, weapons and ammo are plentiful. Initially, this was not the case. My son asked for a challenge with 113, so I converted my original to this. Garrison XML has been used fully, hence the pig of a game from the outset.

I found it fun so far. Must try to play this right through myself.

EDIT. Sorry - forgot the preview of the strategic map, see link.
The map looks far better in-game than what it does here.

I have gotten some maps from Shed and Azazel, but posting them to this thread from the mapper themselves is a great idea. I will have to get a collection of mine and others up here later. Thanks for all the submissions so far.

Is there an actual database for these maps, or is it still getting started? I'd like to contribute, i guess. If you guys could direct me to some info on mapmaking, the utilities and other things i would need to know, that'd be great.

It'd be cool to have a sit where you could preview individual map files and have downloads for them.

I can't get the Map Editor to run. I followed Sheds instructions in setting up the shortcut stuff and all, but when I double click my short cut to map editor all it does is still run in the de-bug mode and the map editor does not come up. What I am doing wrong here?

EDIT: Nevermind. I figured it out. I forgot the the little minus sign before -EDITORAUTO.

I am running Kaiden's mapeditor that comes with 1.13 now. I did notice when I 1st started it up it did not detect the maps in the data folder that I had extracted. But I took Khor's advice from another post here and placed all the extracted maps and radar maps into the 1.13 data folder and ran the mapeditor again and it found them all. How come it does not locate them in the regular data folder?

EDIT: Also that Dragon Unpacker program you suggested Shed works pretty darn slick. Now I don't have to dick around with unself and some of those other useless and hard to understand extracter programs.

EDIT2: I just want to say Shed's manual he wrote for using the map editor is great. Everyone should definately download it and use it, even if your already familular with the editor. Good job on that Shed. Otherwise I would still be trying to figure out how to get the editor to even load. Get Shed's manual from page 1 here in this thread.

This is strange - I only ever have Maps/RadarMaps in Data, NOT Data 113.
The Map Editor will normally not detect any Maps. It should, however, ask you if you want it to 'create existing' - or something like that!!!

Pleased you like Dragon. I find it the best. It is also upgraded at times. I have petitioned the author for more JA2 functions.

On a side note.
I will probably rip all my maps out of my mod and post them here. Then, hopefully, get around to more map making.